Abstract
A abolição da escravidão no Brasil, em maio de 1888, não envolveu apenas literatos, políticos, jornalistas e a família imperial, mas também, trabalhadores, abolicionistas e moradores dos subúrbios da província do Rio de Janeiro e de locais mais afastados. A participação desses foi marcada, por exemplo, pela subscrição popular realizada nas vésperas da Abolição e apoiada por um jornal, O Paiz, no intuito de comprar a pena de ouro a ser utilizada pela princesa regente no momento da assinatura da lei. A oferta do dinheiro foi feita por meio de doações individuais ou coletivas em que se depositaram também as expectativas em torno do fim da escravidão e os sentidos de liberdade mais amplos associados à Abolição. Os outros festejos promovidos pela imprensa são fundamentais para entendermos a mediação desses sentidos feita por ela.
Highlights
The abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 1888 involved writers, politicians, journalists, and the imperial family, and workers, abolitionists, and people from peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, and even other more distant places
In May 1888 this occurred through the endeavors of the Rio de Janeiro press in the description of the rituals involved in Abolition and in the convocation of the city’ residents to participate in a specific manner in the principal ritual, the signing
The following day O Paiz received a request for support for the subscription started by Luiz Pedro Drago, professor of mathematics in the Imperial College Pedro II, to purchase a gold feather-shaped pen which would be offered to the princess to sign the Abolition Law. This initiative, fed by the expectation that the end of slavery was near, arose out of how the bill was presented to the Chamber, in a short and simple manner, and because of the government’s intention to resolve the problem through the parliament, according to speech given by the Princess Regent at the beginning of the parliamentary session in May 1888.1
Summary
The abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 1888 involved writers, politicians, journalists, and the imperial family, and workers, abolitionists, and people from peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, and even other more distant places.
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